expurgation
/ek-sper-geyt/US // ˈɛk spərˌgeɪt //UK // (ˈɛkspəˌɡeɪt) //
删节,开除,驱逐,删改
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Definitions
v.有主动词 verb
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ex·pur·gat·ed, ex·pur·gat·ing.
- : to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.
- : to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Even as late as the year 1825, a Spanish standard author could not be republished without expurgation.
Perhaps it is too much to ask for complete typographical expurgation of our libraries.
It was he too who had the privilege of witnessing the expurgation of the Islands of the excommunications and admonitions of Rome.
To do that would require a complete expurgation of the journal.
In their work no later expurgation could cleanse away that which their work could not contain.
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